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Mayor Eric Adams speaking at City Hall on 2025 NYC Mayor's Race

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Adams unveils after-school expansion and effort to make it universal, following similar plans from mayoral rivals

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about state budget deal

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Mayor Adams scores wins on discovery laws, involuntary removal changes in state budget deal

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Brannan unveils plan to support small businesses faced with economic challenges

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Rent Guidelines Board members speak as push for rent freeze continues

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NYC Mayor’s Race: Adams won’t commit to rent freeze, urges rivals to consider small landlords

Mayor Adams wearing sunglasses while speaking about housing investments

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Mayor Adams touts millions for NYCHA, supportive housing, tenant safeguards in self-proclaimed ‘best budget ever’

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Judge extends order blocking ICE from re-establishing Rikers Island office in win for City Council

Former NYS Assembly Member Michael Blake (79th District).

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Mayoral candidates discuss Immigration Policy during local forum

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Brooklyn Borough President endorses Brad Lander in Democratic mayoral primary

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A protestor on stage during the Mayoral Forum on the Black Agenda at Medgar Evers College on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

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Protests at Mayoral Forum on Black Agenda

NYC Mayor's Race candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo

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NYC Mayor’s Race: TV ads begin to heat up as Mamdani hits Cuomo as one in the same with Eric Adams

Attorney General Letitia James touts Speaker Adams for mayor

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NYC Mayor’s Race: AG James, union leaders pitch Speaker Adams as best candidate to take on Trump, stop Cuomo

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Brannan earns support from Southeast Queens lawmakers ahead of comptroller primary

Mayor Adams entering court amid federal corruption case

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Three more federal prosecutors tied to Mayor Adams’ dismissed corruption case resign from Trump Justice Department

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Chi Ossé and park advocates call for more funding of New York City’s green spaces

By Gabriele Holtermann

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about 2025 Mayor's Race

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NYC Mayor’s Race: Eric Adams accuses Council Speaker of using policy spats as springboard to challenge him

Participants at the Feb. 23, 2025 rally in Central Park proudly waved Israeli flags and carried posters with the pictures, names, and ages of the hostages still in Hamas captivity.

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New York leads the nation in reported antisemitic incidents in 2024: ADL

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, left, are leading the field in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, according to the latest poll

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NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo and Mamdani gain ground as Democratic primary turns into two-person race

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Left-wing mayoral contenders blast Cuomo’s housing record, paint him as ‘landlords’ favorite’

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Mayor Adams dismisses questions over his $3 million legal debt: ‘Why are you asking me?’

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Empire Wind 1 project at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal faces setback as Trump admin halts construction

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Candidates speak during an LGBTQ mayoral forum at The Church of the Village on March 27.

LGBTQ Democratic clubs roll out primary endorsements for mayor and other races

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Brooklyn native Denis Weekes shows kindness to his community through love of cooking

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11 Great Long Island Carnivals, Festivals, and Fairs May 2025

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Brooklyn cops shoot and kill driver after he strikes lieutenant with vehicle, NYPD says